PSPP-BUG: [bug #33036] PSPP crashes if variable names are illegal

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: PSPP crashes if variable names are illegal
                 Project: PSPP
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Sat 09 Apr 2011 09:25:15 PM UTC
                Category: Graphical User Interface
                Severity: 5 - Average
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

I used PSPP on Linux, and by mistake used illegal characters in a variable
name (i.e. äüö in my case). On Linux (Ubuntu 10.10), I could work with this
file without problems. When opening the same file under Windows XP (SP3), PSPP
crashes. The error message suggests that PSPP is trying to catch the illegal
variable name, but somehow at this moment it crashes.

Opening the file on Linux, I could manually change the variable names, and
everything works as well.

Two things probably need to be fixed. (1) the crash under Windows, (2) the
fact that the Linux version can save variable names that are not allowed in
SPSS.




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